To our members and friends! Thanks for being part of another fantastic year here at Sandwell Visually Impaired. We hope you have enjoyed this year's activities. You can see that our Active 60 group rounded off their year in style with Santa! We have many more ideas to come for the new year and …
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SVI Holiday Closing Times
The SVI office will close for the holidays on Friday 20 December at 1pm. We reopen on Monday 6 January. Season's Greetings everyone! If you need urgent help, please call Sandwell Council on 0121 569 2200. …
Trip to the Barber Institute
We organise regular visits to the Barber Institute for our members. It's one of the many opportunities we take to enable visually impaired people to engage fully with arts, crafts and other cultural activities. SVI member Liz describes a recent visit and tells us why the art shown was important …
World Sight Day with Serco
SVI members and friends took the message of ‘Vision First’ out to the people of West Bromwich on World Sight Day, Thursday 10 October. We hosted an information stand in Tesco West Bromwich where we talked to people about eye health. We combined this with a fund raising event that raised £131.83 for …
Annual Forum details announced
We are excited to announce that this year's annual forum keynote speaker will be local lad ‘Blind Dave’. His talk will be just one of the highlights of our yearly event, to be held on Monday 18 November at Portway Lifestyle Centre, Newbury Lane, Oldbury B69 1HE. We also welcome the Mayor of …
